Nejishiki

Collection of short stories including: • *Nejishiki* A man gets bitten on the arm by a jelly fish on a village beach foreign to him. He sets off desperately searching for a doctor who can heal his bleeding veins... Tsuge's 3rd-only English translated work, a sensational and controversial piece that stunned American audiences when published in issue #250 of The Comics Journal. One of Tsuge's "dream stories". • *Numa* (Marsh) A man meets a strange woman while hunting in a marsh. • *Chico* A couple takes care of a java sparrow. • *Hatsutake Gari* (Mushroom Hunting) Rain mysteriously falls around a particular place where a boy and his grandfather plan on going mushroom hunting the next morning... • *Sanshouuo* (Salamander) • *Touge no Inu* (The Dog of the Mountain Pass) • *Uwasa no Bushi* • *Ondoru Koya* (Ondoru House) • *Gensenkan Shujin* (Master of the Gensenkan Inn) • *Chouhachi no Yado* • *Oba Denki Tokin Kogyosho* (Oba's Electroplate Factory) • *Yoshiboo no Hanzai* • *Shounen* • *Aru Mumei Sakka* It **DOES NOT** contain this story: • *Soto no Fukurami* (The Outside Inflation) The outside inexplicably threatens to collapse a man's house, leading him out to a world of anxiety and oddness in this minimalist story. This release is not to be confused with the Drawn & Quarterly release [Nejishiki](https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/nejishiki/), which contains a different set of stories.